Joe Miller's jests : or, The wits vade-mecum

by: Mottley, John, 1692-1750; Miller, Joe, 1684-1738

Publication date: 1739

Topics: English wit and humor, Jestbooks, English

Publisher: London : Printed and sold by T. Read

Collection: lincolncollection; americana

Digitizing sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

Contributor: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection

Language: English

Compiled by John Mottley

"Being a collection of the most brilliant jests; the politest repartees; the most elegant bons mots, and most pleasant short stories in the English language; first carefully collected in the company, and many of them transcribed from the mouth of the facetious gentleman, whose name they bear; and now set forth and published by his lamentable friend and former companion, Elijah Jenkins, esq.; most humbly inscribed to those choice-spirits of the age, Captain Bodens, Mr. Alexander Pope, Mr. Professor Lacy, Mr. Orator Henley, and Job Baker, the kettle-drummer"--T.p

Book, cloth; front and back covers detached, spine missing

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